Re: git-clone(1) after base 3e8619e535b6 for /usr/ports subdirectories

On 8.02.2026 04:46, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 08/02/2026 03:17, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>> That only works if don't already have a ports tree. What's there?
>
>
> root@freebsd-16-amd64-qemu:~ # ls -hlR /usr/ports
>
> total 1.0 KB
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root wheel    2B Jan 19 19:37 distfiles
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root wheel    2B Jan 19 19:37 packages
>
> /usr/ports/distfiles:
> total 0 B
>
> /usr/ports/packages:
> total 0 B
> root@freebsd-16-amd64-qemu:~ # mount | grep ports
>
> zroot/usr/ports on /usr/ports (zfs, local, noatime, nosuid, nfsv4acls)
> zroot/usr/ports/distfiles on /usr/ports/distfiles (zfs, local, 
> noatime, nosuid, nfsv4acls)
> zroot/usr/ports/packages on /usr/ports/packages (zfs, local, noatime, 
> nosuid, nfsv4acls)
> root@freebsd-16-amd64-qemu:~ #
>
>
Hello Graham,

my recommendation is to set WRKDIRPREFIX, DISTDIR, PACKAGES and INDEXDIR 
(if you are using indexes) to the separate subtree as follows:

#zfs destroy zroot/usr/ports/distfiles
#zfs destroy zroot/usr/ports/packages
#mkdir -p /var/ports/{distfiles,packages}
#cat <<EOF >> /etc/make.conf
WRKDIRPREFIX= /var/ports
DISTDIR= /var/ports/distfiles
PACKAGES= /var/ports/packages
INDEXDIR= /var/ports
EOF

The above configuration works best and is absolutely required if you are 
using read-only mounts for /usr/ports (NFS, nullfs, etc.)

There is another option, if you don't want to change anything, create 
local ports repo and add remote origin:

#cd /usr/ports
#git init
#git remote add origin https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git
#git fetch
#git branch -f main origin/main
#git checkout main

Cheers

-- 
Marek Zarychta